I'm trying to keep an open mind. I've no problem per se with Middle Earth including plenty of people of colour, it's right there in the source material. Numenor

I'm trying to keep an open mind. I've no problem per se with Middle Earth including plenty of people of colour, it's right there in the source material. Numenor was quite far south, and the nearest places to it on the continent are Umbar and the far south. We know they had lots of contact and colonies there for thousands of years, and it would actually be kind of weird if there weren't southerners or people with some southern descent turning up in Numenor. Plenty of justification for people of colour to play a huge role in any story of or about Numenor, or any group that comes from there. I'm not sure about the Elves and Dwarves, but sure, if humans from the south are of colour, why not Elves and Dwarves from down south too? It all depends how it's handled. Game of Thrones did a fairly good job on this, with characters from different parts of the world often looking like it, aside from some issues with casting extras (pasty looking Irish Dothraki for example). As for warrior Galadriel, well, she was in a war. She personally walked all the way from the Undying Lands through the icy wastes of the North with her people, who suffered huge losses. That journey was no joke, and I have no problem believing she fought alongside them, and was entirely capable of doing so. Having said that the fake fan engagement stuff was horrifyingly cringey. We'll just have to see.